Gustavo Solórzano

Writer, editor, critic, translator, and professor. Director of the Editorial of the State Distance University (Universidad Estatal a Distancia). He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and a Master’s in Latin American Literature from the University of Costa Rica, where he has served as a professor. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Spanish Philology. Winner of the 2023 Aquileo J. Echeverría National Poetry Award. Member of the editorial board of Káñina magazine (University of Costa Rica). Author of 12 books, including Nadie que esté feliz escribe (2017) and La culpa (2023). He edited and translated La oscuridad intacta (poetry by Dana Gioia, 2020) and co-edited Volume 20 of Sobre 21. Literaturas costarricenses del nuevo siglo: ensayos (ECR, 2021).

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Advantages of an Ibero-American directory of academic journals

María Isabel Cabrera

Director of the University of Granada Press. President of the Union of Spanish University Presses (UNE) and a member of its Board of Directors since 2012. She holds a PhD and is a professor in the Department of Art History at the same institution and has been a member of the University Institute for Research on Peace and Conflicts since 2015. She serves as director, editorial board member, and member of scientific committees for various journals and monograph collections, and also works as a reviewer. She has participated as a researcher in numerous R&D projects and has directed the project “Heritage and Memory of Francoism: Conservation or Reinterpretation in Democratic Spain.”

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Advantages of an Ibero-American directory of academic journals

Sayri Karp Mitastein

Director of the Universidad de Guadalajara Press. Co-founder of Red Altexto, the Network of University and Academic Presses of Mexico, and a member of its Advisory Council. She served as President of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC) from 2015 to 2023. In 2018, she received the University Publishing Merit Award from the University Book Fair of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, as well as the Rubén Bonifaz Nuño University Publisher Recognition, granted by UNAM during the International Book Fair of University Presses (Filuni).

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Tribute to the Association of Latin American and the Caribbean University Presses (EULAC)
Inauguration
The Value of Ibero-American Networks in Recognizing Spanish and Portuguese as Languages of Science

Juan Felipe Córdoba

Director of the Editorial of the Universidad del Rosario. Consultant in Colombia for the International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, an autonomous body of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He served as president of the Association of University Presses of Colombia (ASEUC) and, from 2009 to 2015, of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). In 2019, he received the Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Recognition for University Publishers, awarded by UNAM at the International Book Fair for University Publishers (Filuni).

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Tribute to the Association of Latin American and the Caribbean University Presses (EULAC)
X-rays of Ibero-American Academic Publishing
The Value of Ibero-American Networks in Recognizing Spanish and Portuguese as Languages of Science

Lía Castillo Meneses

President of the Latin American and Caribbean University Publishers Association (EULAC) since 2023. She holds a degree in Business Administration with postgraduate studies in Marketing and Sales. Since 2007, she has coordinated the Marketing and Sales department at the UPC Press of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. She is the founder of the university publishers and research/documentation centers chapter in Peru (EUPerú) and served as president during its first two terms.

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Tribute to the Association of Latin American and the Caribbean University Presses (EULAC)

María Fernanda Pampín

Doctor in Literature and holder of a degree in Letters from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She currently directs the publications of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She was a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) at UBA, where she collaborates in the publications area. Her academic work includes articles on Latin American and Caribbean literature in specialized books and journals, as well as studies on publishing policies in Ibero-America.

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Advantages of an Ibero-American directory of academic journals
Editorial Communication: An Unfinished Task